Thanks! Another member of the retro Spectrum team, arguably their most powerful.
Pride
Backstory:
He’s never revealed much of his past. Much of what the team does know is second-hand information from Triad, with whom Pride formed a particularly close relationship. He was a soldier in WWII. A member of an elite clandestine wetworks squad. Thus any record of his civilian existence has been destroyed, making it near impossible to determine who he used to be. They had a mission against the Axis powers in Germany. They failed. Pride and his surviving teammates were rounded up and experimented on by Nazi scientists. One by one, Pride watched his comrades die wretchedly, either by side effect of the treatments they were subjected to or by their own hand after the torture had driven them insane. According to Triad, Pride lost somebody incredibly special to him during this ordeal. Some genetic quirk in his physiology allowed Pride to survive the treatment. He was gifted with near invulnerability, vast superhuman strength, and superhuman speed. Pride used these abilities to tear his prison apart and kill his captors.. He spent much of the years thereafter wandering as a homeless vagrant, anonymous and alone. He found he didn’t age anymore, another gift from his jailers. Eventually he made it back to America, hiding amongst the burn outs and abandoned in NYC. It wasn’t until the Stonewall Riots, the sight of a man in uniform brutalizing a young gay man, that something inside him snapped. He rose up, using his abilities to tear apart the shackles and police wagons. No more secrecy. No more hiding. He would be a living banner to his people. A living symbol of Pride. He was a natural leader to the team, but always deferred to Rosemary. Pride burned out his abilities during the 1970’s, deliberately and repeatedly exposing himself to the HIV virus and incubating post-human antibodies through his accelerated immune system. His abilities were gone, but he spared the LGBT community the ravages of a potential plague. He passed away in the late 80’s. His true age finally catching up with him.
